The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-01-13
,pow.wow on the beach. Their head mar
talked to them, and finally several stout
men returned to Us and carried four OF

.uoW,.wow on the beach, Their head man
talked to them, and finally several stout
men returned to us and carried four OF
our party of.
ss.sBad sign, :, mnttered Dalton, that
means 'thatwe are to be killed, or that the
Others viii be;I can't tell which"
Just then the head man came up to u.s.
s dMe Kybela. MesSktDg. You live
wid mo-
Seeing that he spoke English so we'll,
Eve asked about opy fellow prisoners,
81 reply horrffed us. As we'll as ne
q l6Sdnli understand it our companions had
sbear taken off To- be sacrificed. Volcano
an ga center Of The Island HAD been rum
bling and belching out fro and smoke at
i intervals for some time past, and bis
majesty, King Kybela, had decided to
smafe terms with the angry spirit in the
bosgelssof the earth, by. pitching lew
EEita nan Into the crater. Hespaid nos
!. .Ral tobdraapssdtAjts, and aslwe never saw
the four men again, there Is little doupt'
that they met the terrible doom marked
ODE fos fhain His majesty seemed; % %
snrprked- Chat VI took It ssos hard he
patted us on our heads, and said:
.sKing Kybela no hurt you. You safe.
E.Youlive Wild me. :. ..s.=s.S, lr..zszs., ,z.r
tSsIs1is sGmewhAt relteEesissos. $. = or lives
9watato b&snaSed there Was Afau hope.
The next day his majesty set US TO worK;
We found that our lives hnd been spared
because King Kybela wanted somebody to
guard and take care OF the sacred roosters
of Yangho Lo.
Hanged II this can be realr' said Del-
ton to me. IAN Ia lunatic2 AN, dream
,ng' In as4 9senssP1as 1 Z 70 ss1 ehas sq0e 'nnss
It was an painfully real to mo. We had
been carried over the mountains to the
quiet valley where his majesty Kybela
Ived In sESmt6 Ahan su8tonnded by
sinfA& eaaasesM 81 We bag been reed rom
aid aaaoken hativeaafmed with
spears had introduced Us to the sacred
ROSTERS and explained our duties.
bssT 5sayep xoosters, and the mo-
ment we saw them we thought OF poor
Barlow and knew that he had told us the
l.truth. These remarkable birds were six
/ feet high. They were built on the Shanghai
order and were ferocious and Eepulsiyo In,
|. appearance. Their eyes resembled balls OF
led fire. Their bills were fully two fest
long and their spurs were about nine
inches. Their feathers, although oiled
every day, were rough and shaggy, and
their wings were too closely clipped to look
welI The muscularlegs Of these creatures
legs nearly as largo as man's--shoWed
|ythns-- possessed or enormous
strength and endurance.
Our guards told us "sthas the reacred
ROSTERS lived forever, whsn they were
mMerly;credf ferssaW When onedied itwas.
the custan, 6f sKing BSbela 10 osslers the;
keepers toS ReEkIlled, ADd there hal sbeen
of late such an Unprecedented mortality
among both ROSTERS and kaepers. that.
his majesty had been unable to find mem-
|, ,bers Of hts tribe who would accept this
important trust. Matters had approached
an open revolt when our capture oc-
CURED.
iro6ters Of vangho 7 o.. said Dalton.
Remember that w1fla they Live we are
sa1s; Knowing how much hodS odSspeidsa al upon it,
we Immediately set to work to make
oursalSes; solid withntha ROSTERS. We
wefss separated from tham by lei bamboo
picket t fence, mid were III no danger, ex-
tscept once a,dny when; weiwent into the
Enclosure to oil their. feataers. At such
times one Of Us would do the ofling with
ailonR mon, while thsf other stDod iof
with q gong which he beat furiously when,
one Of the birds showed b disposition to
nal1 3 lsss sshssss essfsjs ii assv asy5 ID got
| things reduced to a system One. Of the
ROSTERS entangled spur in my garments
land dragged, me around the yard .one
aud another :spatched of Dal:.
I Ton cap and swallowed It, but with the
exception Of these triffng accidents every
thing moved along serenely.
The horrible novelty ofsour position
seemed to worry Dalton. Every night he
as,s sg5a ssk aeiS t3saa Il said. .rhsse ROSTERS
are bad enough. Who would have be-
NsfeHi that such monsters existed3 And.
then everything else Is on such distorted
scale. The clouds here get tangled up In,
q fellows hair and whiskers: Tho sun is
| always shining through red haze. Some
otithe trees are cannibalstic. II man
goes to sleep under ono the branches droop
down And flbsS on HIM and drAin his life
bleed. NeaSly all the vegetables grow
without any roots They are pulpy balls
i-rfiinHon ths ground; without any stem
or stalk, or anything. Now, You may be
able to stand thS srsN thing, buth IS IS
driving me crazA..S - * uss
felt as badly about It as any one could,
Ebut still Icouhseled patddace;:s .eoa& g
hi: aaDi Is AannsiS 1859 \ -i:s; ~. = =
fiis: One dayieyery thing was I'm commotion
in his majesty's shanty, and in the village
| Of bamboo huts around It The king
harangued his warriors and they beat
their gongs and brandished their spears